Anastasia Mihailovskaya
Should be a nuclear power station in Belarus?
I can’t say ‘yes’ or ‘no’. I have reasons for building a nuclear power station (NPS) and for not doing it. I want to tell you about the effects on the environment and people. The most considerable factors are mechanical impacts on the relief; surface and underground waters contain chemical and radioactive components which can cause diseases or poisoning; emissions and discharges of radioactivity on people don’t pass without a trace; in case of a faded giant people get radioactive emission which can cause serious diseases such as leukaemia, cancer etc; and producing of nuclear bombs is one of the negative factors. But when we compare a NPS and a thermal power station, emissions of the second are much more harmful than of the first. A NPS doesn’t emit CO2, radioactive sulphur etc into the air. It’s an argument for building a NPS in Belarus. Another argument is that a NPS doesn’t use oxygen in its production. Also a NPS can use fuel after recycling and the energy
